I've known several people who have gone to Bob Jones. Generally though, this school (along with Pensacola Christian College) is spoken of with either derision or awed horror even in the most fundamentalist circles. I had a teacher at one point who attended this school. She was generally liked, seen as competent and fun though rather strict and `prim' (she went to the point of not attending school banquets (the school, controlled to an extent by conservative Baptists, bans dancing)) due to the attire of the girls who attended.

Note, this isn't likely to change much at Bob Jones. For one thing, he says that their official opinions haven't changed a bit. Further, "dating" is a relative term at Bob Jones; you can't go to movies, you must be attended by a chaperone, and dates are limited to 90 minutes, and you certainly can't dance or listen to any contemporary or popular music, to name a few restrictions.

"I'm told -- I hope it's true -- that Bob Jones women were forbidden to wear makeup until that became a mark of the counterculture, whereupon they were required to wear it. I do know that BJU now offers instruction in 'cosmetology.'"

"The university is justly proud of its museum of religious art...All of the art is old and European, which is to say Papist. Some of the martyrs depicted look even less comfortable than usual, which I attribute to their incongrous setting."

"Another {book found in the BJU bookstore}, called A Church Built On Sand, condemns the liberalism of the Southern Baptist Convention."